The 5th Information Retrieval Facility Conference 2012 provided once again a multidisciplinary scientific forum for researchers in Information Retrieval and related areas. Furthermore, the conference aimed at bringing young researchers into contact with the industry at an early stage. Another emphasis was put on the applicability of IR solutions to real industry cases and the respective challenges.

as well as technology providers and information search professionals who are interested in

harnessing the know-how transfer from academic research

discovering new technologies on the market

discussing about still unsolved challenges in professional information search

All papers underwent a review process with each paper beingreviewed by at least three members of the programme committee. Theproceedings of the 5th IRF Conference are published by Springer in the LNCS series.